No owner or occupant of any building situated within the fire limits of the City shall use the cellar of such building or store goods, merchandise or other articles therein so as to leave less than a three-foot wide unobstructed passage from the front to the rear of the cellar, which passage would be used for the purpose of running a line of fire hose in time of fire. No such person shall permit rubbish or any unnecessary flammable matter to accumulate or remain in such cellar or refuse or neglect to clean such cellar or to remove any of the contents thereof or to rearrange the same upon the order of the Chief of the Fire Division.
(1969 Code Sec. 92.25)